In the 19th century, when this watercolor was painted, surprise attacks by crocodiles were all too common. Malagasy have other curious beliefs concerning this reptile. Henry Grainge, an Englishman ...

In 2019, while excavating the necropolis of Qubbet el Hawa, across the Nile from Aswan in southern Egypt, Belgian and Spanish archaeologists unearthed a trove of mummified crocodiles: five almost ...